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2012 Orbetello Challenger
The 2012 Orbetello Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Orbetello, Italy between 23 and 29 July 2012. Singles main draw entrants Seeds * 1 Rankings are as of July 16, 2012. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Marco Cecchinato * Alessio di Mauro * Matteo Marrai * Walter Trusendi The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw: * Evgeny Korolev The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Theodoros Angelinos * Jérôme Inzerillo * Dušan Lajović * Goran Tošić Champions Singles * Roberto Bautista Agut def. Dušan Lajović, 6–3, 6–1 Doubles * Stefano Ianni / Dane Propoggia def. Alessio di Mauro / Simone Vagnozzi, 6–3, 6–2 External linksOfficial website {{2012 ATP Challenger Tour Orbetello Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. The French Open uses clay courts, the only Grand Slam tournament to do so. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain. Two main types exist: red clay, the more common variety, and green clay, also known as "rubico", which is a harder surface. Although less expensive to construct than other types of tennis courts, the maintenance costs of clay are high as the surface must be rolled to preserve flatness. Play Clay courts are considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Points are usually longer as there are fewer winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianluca Naso
Gianluca Naso (born 6 January 1987) is an Italian retired professional tennis player. He won three doubles titles on ATP Challenger Tour in Genoa and Todi (both in 2008). Both times his partner was Walter Trusendi. And in 2013 at Meknes with Alessandro Giannessi Alessandro Giannessi (born 30 May 1990) is a professional Italian tennis player. On 24 July 2017 he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 84 while his best doubles ranking was 171 on 14 October 2013. Career Giannessi made his Grand Slam d .... Challenger finals Singles: 3 (1–2) Doubles: 8 (3–5) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Naso, Gianluca Italian male tennis players Living people 1987 births Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis 20th-century Italian people 21st-century Italian people People from Trapani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dušan Lajović
Dušan Lajović ( sr-cyrl, Душан Лајовић; born 30 June 1990) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Lajović has won one singles and two doubles titles on the ATP Tour. On 29 April 2019, Lajović reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 23. On 21 September 2020, he peaked at No. 82 in the doubles rankings. He is best known for his clay-court game, kick serve and strong flowing groundstrokes, especially his one-handed backhand. Lajović regularly represents Serbia in team competitions, after playing in the now defunct World Team Cup in 2010 and 2011, he is a member of the Serbian Davis Cup team since 2012 and he contributed greatly to Serbia winning the inaugural ATP Cup in 2020, as he won four of six matches. He won his first singles tournament at the 2019 Croatia Open and reached his first Masters 1000 final at the 2019 Monte-Carlo Masters. Tennis career 2007-2011 For a long time, Lajović primarily played on the Futures circuit and the Challenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Inzerillo
Jérôme Inzerillo (born 15 February 1990, in Marseille) is a tennis player from France. Inzerillo and Jonathan Eysseric were the 2007 US Open boys doubles champions as a sixth seed. In the semifinals, Inzerillo and Eysseric beat top-seeded Vladimir Ignatic and Roman Jebavý. In the final, they defeated Grigor Dimitrov and Vasek Pospisil Vasek Pospisil ( ; cs, Vašek Pospíšil, ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranking of No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 .... In 2012 Inzerillo was ranked #354 in men's singles, the highest of his career. In January 2019, the AP reported that Inzerillo was one of four French tennis professionals arrested in a large tennis-fixing ring. Up to 100 players were suspected of working for a syndicate led by 28-year old Grigor Sargsyan, known as the Maestro. Sargsyan was arrested and held in a Belgian jail. The scheme was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeny Korolev
Evgeny Evgenyevich Korolev ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Королёв; born 14 February 1988) is a retired Russian tennis player and the cousin of former Russian player Anna Kournikova. He began playing tennis at age four with his father, and picked up his first ATP points at age 15 in three German challenger events. He can speak Russian, German, English and Spanish. Personal Korolev retired from Tennis in 2016 due to persistent injuries. Career Early years In 2005, he won three futures and a challenger event. He started off the year with a defeat in a German futures event, although only after beating fellow hopeful Andrey Golubev on the way. He later claimed a second futures win in France, in which he beat home favorite Mathieu Montcourt in the final. He later won another futures event in Austria and an F1 event in France. His success in these contests convinced him to start playing more challenger events, including a victory in the Aachen challenger e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Trusendi
Walter Trusendi (born 3 January 1985) is an Italian former professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. Trusendi reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 299 in August 2011, and his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 in August 2011. In final matches to date, he has a career record of 8 wins and 10 losses in singles matches, and 39 wins and 24 losses in doubles matches. In July 2012, Trusendi successfully qualified for his only career ATP Tour main draw match at the 2012 Croatia Open. He won the necessary 3 consecutive matches in qualifying, against Saša Stojisavljević, Damir Džumhur and Bastian Trinker Bastian Trinker (born 11 May 1990) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He competes mainly in the ITF circuit, where he has eight singles titles and three doubles titles. He played his first ATP main draw match at the 2015 BMW Open after ..., before falling in the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Marrai
Matteo Marrai (born 17 November 1986) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. Biography Marrai was born in Pisa and started playing tennis aged six. He played mostly on the Futures circuit, where he won a total of 21 titles. His only appearance in the main draw of an ATP Tour tournament came at the 2008 Open Sabadell Atlántico Barcelona, as a qualifier. After beating Mikhail Ledovskikh and Andrey Golubev in qualifying, he lost in first round to Barcelona local Alberto Martín. He took part in the qualifying competition at the 2009 Australian Open and was eliminated in the opening round. At the 2009 Mediterranean Games, Marrai lost the bronze medal match to Gianluca Naso Gianluca Naso (born 6 January 1987) is an Italian retired professional tennis player. He won three doubles titles on ATP Challenger Tour in Genoa and Todi (both in 2008). Both times his partner was Walter Trusendi. And in 2013 at Meknes wi ..., but teamed up with Naso to win gold in men's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessio Di Mauro
Alessio di Mauro (born 9 August 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. During his career, he reached the final of one ATP tournament, the 2007 ATP Buenos Aires. On 26 February 2007 the left-hander reached his career high ranking of world no. 68. Betting scandal On 10 November 2007, at a position of world no. 124, di Mauro was the first player to be sanctioned after being embroiled in a betting scandal. Di Mauro received a $60,000 (£29,000) fine and 9 months banning from the ATP Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organis ... for an offense that carried a maximum punishment of three years. Some officials called for a harsher punishment. However, di Mauro was not betting on the outcome of his own matches nor did he attempt to influence the outcomes of match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Sousa
Pedro Barreiros Cardoso de Sousa (; born 27 May 1988) is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the Association of Tennis Professionals#ATP Tour, ATP Tour. In February 2019, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 99. ATP career finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Challenger and Futures finals Singles: 35 (17 titles, 18 runner-ups) Doubles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner-ups) ITF Junior Circuit Singles: 3 (3 titles) Performance timelines Singles ''Current through the 2021 US Open (tennis), 2021 US Open.'' Doubles Record against top 10 players Sousa's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Only ATP Tour main draw and Davis Cup matches are considered. * Gilles Simon 1–0 * Juan Martín del Potro 0–1 * David Goffin 0–1 * Ernests Gulbis 0–1 * Fernando Verdasco 0–1 * Stan Wawrinka 0–1 :''* .'' Career earnings :* As of 10 April 2017. National participation Davis Cup (9 wins, 3 losses) Sousa deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Vagnozzi
Simone Vagnozzi (; born 30 May 1983) is an Italian former professional tennis player. Vagnozzi had a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 161 achieved on 7 November 2011. He also had a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 74 achieved on 4 April 2011. Vagnozzi made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2004 Grand Prix Hassan II on clay courts in Casablanca, Morocco when he successfully advanced through three qualifying rounds to reach his first career main draw. In qualifying he defeated Talal Ouahabi, followed by leading Thomas Shimada ''6–0, 2–0'' when he had to retire from the match, and finally Bjorn Rehnquist to gain a main draw birth. In the first round he would go on extend his winning streak to four matches by defeating Jean-René Lisnard in straight sets but would ultimately fall in the second round to Swiss player Ivo Heuberger. He made his ATP Tour doubles debut at the 2005 Croatia Open where he received a direct entry alongside Slovenian player L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yannick Mertens
Yannick Mertens (born 25 June 1987) is a professional tennis player from Belgium who mainly has played on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 27 July 2015, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 179, and his highest doubles ranking of 363 was reached on 19 September 2011. Personal life He was born in Anderlecht and currently resides in Ternat Ternat (; also french: Ternath, link=no) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the villages of Sint-Katherina-Lombeek, Ternat proper and Wambeek. It is also situated in the Pajottenland. .... His favorite surface is clay, and he is coached by his father Kris Mertens. Future and Challenger finals Singles: 53 (28–25) References External linksOfficial website* * 1987 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Flemish sportspeople People from Anderlecht Sportspeople from Brussels 21st-century Belgian people {{Belgium-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facundo Bagnis
Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 16 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016. Tennis career 2011-2012: ATP debut and first win Bagnis played in his first ATP World Tour match at the 2011 Movistar Open on January 31, 2011, losing to Santiago Giraldo in three sets, and he won his first tour level match at 2012 Copa Claro beating Leonardo Mayer. 2014-2017: First Major win, Career high year-end ranking Bagnis secured his biggest victory (and first at Grand Slam level) when he defeated Julien Benneteau in the first round of the 2014 French Open, winning the deciding set 18–16. 2021: First ATP final, US Open third round In 2021, Bagnis recorded his first ATP semifinal at the Córdoba Open, where he would lose to 5th seeded Albert Ramos Viñolas in 3 sets. Two weeks later at the Chile Open, he would go even further by recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
